Pictures: Window on the World 2nd October

A car driving at 70 km/h hits a dummy on a scooter, on October 2, 2012 in Le Mans, during a crash test organized to raise awareness of high school students of the risks of road traffic.

The Tower of London is illuminated pink for Breast Cancer Campaign’s ‘Turn London Landmarks Pink’ for breast cancer awareness month on October 1, 2012 in London, England.

The bow of the Lamma IV boat (L) is seen partially submerged during rescue operations on October 2, 2012 the morning after it collided with a Hong Kong ferry killing over 30 people. The boat, filled with more than 120 people headed to watch a national day fireworks display in Victoria harbour, collided with a passenger ferry and sank off Hong Kong, leaving 36 people dead and sparking a frantic overnight search and rescue effort, officials said on October 2.

Students cheer as fraternity members from the country’s state university run naked around the campus to open a week-long celebration of their university’s 108th foundation Monday Oct. 1, 2012 in Manila, Philippines. The annual naked run has this year’s theme of calling for a clean and honest elections as Monday’s celebration also coincided with the first day of filing of “certificates of candidacy” for the country’s May 2013 local elections from town councilors to mayors and governors up to the senators.

Harar, Ethiopia, young woman threshing grain in a market.

Danish freestyle skier Anja Bolbjerg skies down to sea level from the top of Mount Geitgaljen in the Lofoten region of Norway in April, 2012. Bolbjerg skied down the mountain as part of Mammut’s ‘Biggest Peak Project in History’ to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversary as an alpine equipment provider.

Danish freestyle skier Anja Bolbjerg and Norwegian colleagues stand on top of Mount Geitgaljen in the Lofoten region of Norway in April, 2012. Bolbjerg skied down the mountain as part of Mammut’s ‘Biggest Peak Project in History’ to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversary as an alpine equipment provider.

A Bangladeshi Buddhist monk checks a damaged statue at a Buddhist temple which was torched in an overnight weekend attack in Ramu in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Hundreds of Buddhists fled their southern Bangladesh villages in the wake of attacks by Muslims who burned at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran. The Buddhists started returning home Monday amid heightened security and more than 160 arrests.

An Afghan refugee girl stands next to her family’s sheep in a field next to a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012.

A labourer works inside an iron factory on the outskirts of Jammu October 1, 2012. Manufacturing accounts for a significant share of India’s gross domestic product, so a slowdown would not augur well for Asia’s third-largest economy, already grappling with its weakest GDP growth in almost three years. The latest government data showed industrial output growth stalled in July from a year earlier.

Afghan girls ride donkeys carrying firewood for their home in the Gushta district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 01, 2012.

An Egyptian policeman rides a camel during a patrol at the Giza pyramids, south of Cairo, on October 1, 2012.

British model Cara Delevingne leads a line of models displaying creation by Leonard fashion house at the Paris Fashion Week Ready-to-Wear Spring/Summer 2013 in Paris, France, 01 October 2012. The fashion week runs from 25 September to 03 October.

Italian driver Cinotto Michele and his co-driver teammate Italian Zini Fulvio of the Dessoude Team drive at the start of the 15th edition of Pharaohs Rally in front of the famous Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 01 October 2012. According to organizers, 72 motorbikes, 12 quads, 37 cars, one truck plus another twenty teams will take part in the six-day 2780km desert rally through the Egypt’s Western Desert and oasis towns of Siwa and Bahariya.

A worker sprays water on a statue of the late Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of his birth anniversary at Gandhi Park in Bhubaneswar, eastern India, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Gandhi, known as the “Father of the Nation,” was instrumental in the movement that lead to India’s independence from Britain in 1947.

A section of the Great Wall of China that is decaying and overgrown with vegetation can be seen atop a small hill near the village Xiang Shui Hu, located 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Beijing September 30, 2012. Voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the 6,400 km (4,000 mile) wall snakes its way across 11 Chinese provinces and draws millions of tourists every year, mostly to restored sections near the capital, Beijing. But away from the tourist trail, some parts of the wall are being allowed to crumble away. Picture taken September 30, 2012.

Chinese soldiers take photos on Tiananmen Square before a flower laying ceremony at the Monument to the People’s Heroes to mark National Day on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, 01 October 2012. China’s ruling Communist Party on 28 September said it planned to open a five-yearly congress on 08 November to approve its first leadership changes for a decade. The crucial party congress is expected to approve successors to current party leader and state President Hu Jintao, state Premier Wen Jiabao and other senior figures who will retire.